Two brothers remain in federal custody after they allegedly crashed a truck filled with illegal immigrants during a chase near a Brownsville elementary school.

Court documents obtained Monday show that Abraham Tinajero Martinez and Fidel Tinajero Martinez smuggled a group of immigrants across the Rio Grande near Brownsville.

The two brothers from Mexico drove piled the immigrants in the back of a pickup truck but were detected by Border Patrol agents Friday afternoon.

Both brothers bailed out of the truck during a brief chase where the truck crashed near Solomon P. Ortiz Elementary School on the 2500 block of West Alton Gloor Boulevard.

The two men appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Felix Recio on Monday.

Each of them remains in custody under a $25,000 cash bond for federal human smuggling charges.

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